Mantras can be found almost everywhere, in our everyday lives. We meditate on them. We hear them in mainstream music. We listen to them in speeches. We pin them on our Pinterest boards. However in this context, I will be speaking on meditative mantras. For the sake of meditation, mantras are words, sounds, or ideas…

“On a metaphysical level, we can think that when we are born, we breathe in, and when we die, we breathe out. The space between those two breaths holds the entirety of our life experience here on earth. In essence, the breath holds our entire life force.” —Kino MacGregor

“I wished I hadn’t majored in women filling their pockets with stones and sticking their heads into ovens. Maybe tomorrow the pinhole would widen and I would want to be a marine biologist.” – Kat Clark

Accepting yourself as the woman you are, in the body that God gave you can be more challenging than you’d think. From an early age, I can clearly remember looking through fashion magazines, comparing myself to the celebrities, even if they weren’t anywhere close to my age or appearance. I attempted to point out similar assets…